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Old Mar 25, 2010, 12:14 PM   #1
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NVIDIA GeForce 197.13 WHQL Drivers Released

NVIDIA today released version 197.13 of its GeForce system software. The suite includes drivers for all NVIDIA GeForce GPUs and IGPs since GeForce 6 series, NVIDIA ION platform, as well as system software for NVIDIA PhysX, NVIDIA 3D Vision technology, and drivers for the on-chip HDMI audio which the latest GeForce GPUs are shipping with. The WHQL-signed driver includes PhysX 9.10.0129 system software, updated HDMI audio driver to version 1.0.9.1, application-specific performance increments for several games, notably the following:
  • Up to 13% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with a single GPU, up to 30% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with SLI technology
  • Up to 13% performance increase in H.A.W.X with single GPU, up to 15% performance increase in H.A.W.X with SLI technology
  • Up to 30% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with single GPU, up to 28% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with SLI technology
SLI profiles are added for the following applications: Assassin Creed II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Napoleon: Total War, and Zombie Driver. SLI support is improved for: Metro 2033, Supreme Commander 2, Unigine, and World of Warcraft
- Ambient Occlusion support for Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, Need for Speed: Shift, Resident Evil 5, RUSE, and Street Fighter IV. Anti Aliasing can now be overridden for Mass Effect 2. As always, a number of new and existing bugs were fixed. For more information, refer to the Release Notes documents for Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP.

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Old Mar 25, 2010, 12:27 PM   #2
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nice! i wonder if this driver would let me do the ATI + Nvidia physx patch?
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Old Mar 25, 2010, 12:30 PM   #3
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Nice I may try it since I'm gonna do a re run of warhead. I wonder who needs an increase in fps for hawx though, this game flies already at 100 fps+ lol.
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slightly OT but I notice that the GTA4 'xbox exclusive' episodes are listed in the games above. I hadn't heard that they were coming to the pc, but I'm glad that they are!
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Old Mar 25, 2010, 01:01 PM   #5
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slightly OT but I notice that the GTA4 'xbox exclusive' episodes are listed in the games above. I hadn't heard that they were coming to the pc, but I'm glad that they are!
Yeah its gonna come eventually, it was a timed exclusive for the xbox 360 afaik.
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As an ATI owner....

I'm slightly envious of the green teams drivers. (apart from that wee hiccup they had)

I used to be green, but now just green with envy...

ATI drivers are mince in comparison - though when they get it right - image quality does seem smoother somehow - wierd.

But to summarise my non flamish post - NV drivers 99% Good.
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Anti-Aliasing for Mass Effect 2 !!!

Anyone has any clue whether this driver will work with the CUDA/OpenCL SDK 3.0 Beta for GPGPU purposes ?
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Old Mar 25, 2010, 03:20 PM   #8
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did you noticed that every single whql driver release contain the 10-15% increase in Warhead ?
given the time Warhead was released and the number of whqls released, the performance increase in Warhead should be 1000% (yes, a thousand percent increase), which is not thrue, of course, Warhead actually still perform worse then the original Crysis.
what else do they lie to us about?
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Old Mar 25, 2010, 03:32 PM   #9
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Up to 13% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with a single GPU, up to 30% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with SLI technology

What GPU? GeForce 210, how about being a bit more specific Nvidia, ATI give details on what cards have performance gains, NV, well NV just let's you swivel.
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these dont install right for me, the betas didnt either. My computer locks up mid install and when i restart i come back to a desktop that looks like it has seen a rollback to an old restore point
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Yeah now I need it for BFBC2 as well. I'm tired of looking at nice sharp lines on one building then turning my mouse 90 degrees and seeing ugly ass jaggies on another.

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these dont install right for me, the betas didnt either. My computer locks up mid install and when i restart i come back to a desktop that looks like it has seen a rollback to an old restore point
No issues here. Presently running 197.15 betas.

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Old Mar 25, 2010, 08:16 PM   #12
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What GPU? GeForce 210, how about being a bit more specific Nvidia, ATI give details on what cards have performance gains, NV, well NV just let's you swivel.
I think the improvements are meant to affect all cards that this driver supports.
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well i managed to get 197.15's installed and working
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Using my 9800gt = 181.21
Using my GT240 = 191.07

I am sticking to my word and only use the drivers that shipped with the cards, they seem to be the best, i always have issues with any other drivers i use. As for ATI, this isn't the problem, but with Nvidia it is.
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Thumbs up on these! Both my gtx280 and my 9800gtx are liking them! Very nice fps in games. Lower full load temps.
Edit: lower folding temps too!
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Using my 9800gt = 181.21
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I am sticking to my word and only use the drivers that shipped with the cards, they seem to be the best, i always have issues with any other drivers i use. As for ATI, this isn't the problem, but with Nvidia it is.
this is true if u play games older then ur cards and especially if ur cards r single core. Gamers who play a new game every week need to update, and dual gpu users like myself need the added sli profiles
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I played just cause 2 on my GT240 with the 191.07 and the game ran just fine. I know people say older drivers won't worked well with new games, but that is not true.
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These are good, been using the 197.13 betas that are probably identical to these, was just missing WHQL. Installed these on top just to make sure I don't miss anything
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Old Mar 26, 2010, 12:22 AM   #19
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I played just cause 2 on my GT240 with the 191.07 and the game ran just fine. I know people say older drivers won't worked well with new games, but that is not true.
not really saying it wont play, just maybe not as well as it could
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Thumbs up on these! Both my gtx280 and my 9800gtx are liking them! Very nice fps in games. Lower full load temps.
Edit: lower folding temps too!
I tried it on my second machine with a 9500 GT
and it doesn't recognize it. I have to restore.
Cheapy card I'm not surprised.
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This driver looks promising, I skipped the last 2 due to their bugs. I think I will try it out

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[*]Up to 30% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with single GPU, up to 28% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with SLI technology.
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30% performance increase?
30% wow.
can someone confirm that lol
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Anyone with a GTX 260 based on GT200 B1 having problems? If so please post here so I'll keep my current driver XD.
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Anyone running this driver with a GTX 285 1gb in SLI?
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Anyone running this driver with a GTX 285 1gb in SLI?
Yep. I am. No issues so far.

Running forced X16 AA in Mass Effect 2. Purrrty.

For those that care, OpenCL works with this driver, as well.
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